SERIAL KILLER BEAT LOVER TO DEATH WITH CLAW HAMMER She was third partner to die

SICKO: Johnson, and flat where he killed lover A VIOLENT and controlling serial killer has pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend.

Theodore Johnson, 64, admitted killing 51-year-old mother-of-four and grandmother Angela Best by beating her with a claw hammer and throttling her with a dressing gown cord.

After attacking her at his Islington, north London home he threw himself in front of an express train but survived.

Garage worker Johnson had previously been convicted of killing his wife by throwing her off a balcony in 1981, and strangling another former partner in 1993.

The wheelchairbound defendant had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Ms Best and admitted her murder on the first day of his Old Bailey trial.

Johnson killed Ms Best on December 15, 2016 after their relationship broke down and she started seeing another man. over the balcony of their ninth floor flat in Wolverhampton.

Then in March 1993, he was convicted at the Old Bailey of killing his then partner Yvonne Bennett, by diminished responsibility.

The couple, who had a daughter together, had previously moved from Wolverhampton to Finsbury Park in north London, where Johnson strangled Ms Bennett with a belt after she had an affair with another man.